HALF-FULL REPORT 02/10/12

 
Thanks to Herculean efforts by Miko and Joel Wade, we have finally reached closure on RXII – the Plan B Rendezvous.

First is when.  Memorial Day weekend turned out to be booked up everywhere and impossibly expensive to boot.  After much scrambling, the dates that work are for the following weekend, Friday June 1^st to Sunday June 3^rd. 

Second is where.  It’s really hard to come up with a fabulous place in a fabulous location at an affordable price – but after endless hardball negotiating, Miko & Joel did it.  So here we go.  RXII will be at the Seascape Beach Resort on Monterrey Bay in Santa Cruz, California. 

All the info and details will be up early next week.  For now, plan to join us for the 12^th TTP Rendezvous – RXII – the Plan B Rendezvous, Friday June 1^st to Sunday June 3^rd at the Seascape Report in Santa Cruz.  Maybe we should call this the Beach Party Rendezvous!

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The big CPAC convention is going now in DC, and yesterday there was a extraordinary speech – it was exhilarating and depressing, uplifting and infuriating, so galvanizing you stood up and cheered, so immensely sad you sat down and cried.

The positive emotions were for the man and his message.  The negative ones for what the ethanol moochers and corrupt conservatives of Iowa did to him – killing his campaign for the presidency.  Here he is:

 
 
This is exactly the message we need to elect a president on.  Perry has more successful governing experience than all the other Pub candidates, now and dropped out, put together.  It is simply unbelievable primary voters were so mind-boggingly stupid to reject him, and give us this dog’s breakfast of a nomination race we have now.

Romney remains as exciting as an enema.  Anyone who thinks Santorum – a guy with absolutely no executive experience of any kind and couldn’t even get reelected senator – or Gingrich with his emotional instability and enough baggage to fill a 747 stands a chance against Zero’s attack machine needs his head examined.

The frustration and anger over this mess at CPAC is so palpable it’s like swamp gas.  It’s exactly the same phenomenon I saw at CPAC in 2008 – everyone angry at the choices, no one gung ho for any of them – that resulted in the ridiculous nomination of John McPain.  No one is enthused over Mittens, everyone seems resigned to him.

Which is why so many of them are clinging to the thin reed of hope for a brokered convention.  And indeed, Santorum winning three beauty contests this week (meaning lots of press but no actual delegates selected) gets us closer to that. 

The guys betting their own money at Intrade give the odds of winning the Pub nomination now (2/10) at: 77% Romney, 15% Santorum, 3% Gingrich, 3% Paul, less than 1% for anyone else – and interestingly, no market at all for a brokered convention.  It hasn’t even occurred to the Intrade folks.

But it sure has to the CPAC folks – and not just to the young newbies, but to old pros like my friends Ralph Reed and Morton Blackwell.  This is no longer a pipe dream, they say; it could actually happen.  The odds are still against it, but much less so after Santorum’s triple.  "We could have the most exciting convention of modern times," says Ralph.  "It’s possible."

That possibility will increase once voters it figure out, voting strategically to keep different nominees in the game and keep any one of them from winning.  The more primary voters see a brokered convention as something that could happen, the more they will choose to make it happen.

The best outcome of a brokered convention (Tampa, August 27-30) is a nominee shot out of the box with an explosion of enthusiasm from the party’s conservative base – the momentum of which would build through September and October so it blows Zero out of the water on Nov 6^th.  I want that nominee to be, and think that he should be, Perry.  But it’ll be deuces wild and we could get a real surprise.

One thing you can count on is that a lot of delegates will be overt or closet Paulistas.  It is unlikely in the extreme that Paul would win in Tampa, but there is no doubt that he would wield a major influence.  Other candidates would have to promise him something really hefty to gain his support.  The obvious plum would be Treasury Secretary.  Yes, that would do it.

You could have both delegates and voters as excited about a nominee’s Cabinet as the nominee himself:  Vice-President: Marco Rubio; State: John Bolton; Defense: Allen West; Treasury: Ron Paul; Interior:  Sarah Palin.  Education, Energy/EPA & Commerce: eliminated.  Maybe, just maybe, we won’t have to drag ourselves to the polls on Nov 6^th, but race to them as fast as we can.

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We are going to need all the enthusiasm we can possibly muster for this election – because those voting against us will be doing so out of an even more powerful emotion: life-or-death desperation.

It’s not just that this election is between the producers and the parasites, the makers and the moochers.  It’s that if Republicans don’t get elected, they and their voters go back to their jobs and lives – while if Democrats don’t get elected, they and their voters don’t eat.

I want you to stop now, take a deep breath, read that sentence again, let it sink in, and take another deep breath while avoiding hyperventilating.

Here’s what we’re up against:  most Democrats don’t know how to make a living.  All they know how to do is sponge.  Without a government job, subsidy, or handout, they would starve.

That’s why the most important news article for you to study this week (2/08) is: Dependency Index Surges 23% Under President Obama.

Here is the Dem agenda, epitomized by Zero, laid out right on the table.  The 1962-present Index of Dependency on Government chart alone explains the rise of Democratic Fascism in America (note the only time the index levels off was during the Reagan Presidency).

67 million Americans are now dependent on some Federal program.  Most all of them are convinced that they and their families will literally go hungry without their dole.  They could care less about any destruction of their country Zero wreaks upon it.  All they care about is mainlining the dole into their veins. 

Government dependency is the most addictive drug known to history.  Democrats are drug pushers.  We are up against drug addicts  in the scores of millions. Our side needs the sufficient enthusiasm to overcome their desperation – and a presidential candidate who can provide it.

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If we can get that candidate and muster that enthusiasm to throw Zero into the ash heap of history, then you will see a tsunami of jobs and investment sweep over America (well, maybe it won’t reach Jerry Brown’s California).  One primary reason is that it would unblock Zero’s prevention of US energy independence.

This Bloomberg story on Tuesday (2/07) shows how close we are – and that’s why every effort of Zero’s is to stymie it.  Giant new plays are being discovered now all the time – like the Tuscaloosa Marine Shale, which geologists think contains 7 billion barrels of oil.

What has made this possible is that fracking technology came on so fast it caught the Luddites and eco-fascists unprepared.  The fracking toothpaste was out of shale tube before they could marshall a rationale to stop it. They are fighting a frantic rear-guard action, trying to scare-monger folks about their drinking water and such.  So far, their frenzy is failing.

You can be quite sure, however, that a Zero II term and the enemedia will pump that frenzy to the moon, and kill off fracking with EPA fascist intimidation and impossible-to-comply rules.  With an ABO Pub in place of Zero, the US will become not only energy independent, but a major exporter of energy to the world.

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Speaking of failed frenzies, how about those Hima-lyin’ warm-mongers who really took in the shorts this week?  Data from Amazing GRACE (Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment satellite) is showing no – none, nada – net loss of ice for the glaciers of the world’s greatest mountain chain, the Himalaya-Karakorum of Central Asia.

Further, all­ of the world’s glaciers and icecaps in total show no net loss of ice.  Oh, yes, the oceans are indeed rising:  one six-hundredth of an inch a year.  One inch per 600 years.  Hard to claim island nations disappearing under the waves and coastlines evaporating with that.

Global warming is like, so over.

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You may have heard that it snowed in the Sahara Desert this week.  It must also have snowed in Hell too, because the New York Times wrote (2/07) a editorial condemning Zero:  A Campaign For Sale.

The enemedia flagship actually accuses Zero of "corruption" that "fully implicates the president, his campaign and his administration in the pollution of the political system."  It’s an aberration, of course.  They’ll soon be back to their full-on demagoguery, but at least they took a quick break from it.

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We’ll take a quick break here for what has to be the most enjoyable story of the week: Texas lady survives car crash with breasts so big they acted as an air bag.  There’s no resisting my telling you about a story like that.

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The week’s most inspiring story is, of course, the rebellion of the Catholic Church against Zero’s War on Religion.  Unless Zero quickly capitulates with a mea culpa, this soon will be a rebellion against the entire Dem Party, as Harry Reid claims all his Dem senators support Zero’s religious war.

It’s going to be fun watching the Narcissist-in-Chief weasel his way out of this.

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Even more fun are the parodies this week of Clint Eastwood’s disastrously stupid "Half Time in America" Super Bowl ad.  As you may know, Clint is a friend, and it is sad for me to see him snookered this way.  I know he despises Zero.  Somehow Dem operatives conned him into thinking he was making a pro-American uplifting ad.  All I can say is, old age happens.

TTPers sent me over a dozen of these parodies.  Here are their two favorites.

Reason Magazine’s:

 
 
And Rush’s:

It is half-time in America – and we are going to kick Zero’s butt back to Chicago in the second half.